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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 45: exchange of prisoners and Andersonville. (search)
under trees, sleeping, cooking their coffee or other rations, and amusing themselves outside of the enemy's fire. This was by no means confined to the enlisted men, but I saw officers of various ranks, and men of high rank and of different corps and divisions, who had thus deserted their commands at the front. Dr. Mann, in the August Century, said in reference to the inmates of Andersonville: All classes and grades of society were represented within our prison. Negro soldiers; Bowery roughs, the worst class of all; mechanics, farmers, gamblers, etc. Until about August ist, there was absolutely no check to rascality of any kind, except our own individual physical strength a class of skulkers and gamblers, from both the Eastern and Western armies, captured in the rear by the rebel raiders. An organized band of over two hundred members, selected from the most unprincipled and healthier prisoners, bound together by oaths, and armed with short, heavy clubs, overran the